Review: Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus Diving straight into hell is the 8th storyline adventure for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, which moves from the corrupt city of Baldur’s Gate to Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Problem with D&D’s Adventures The centerpiece of Wizards of the Coast’s product release schedule for 5th Edition is the summer super-adventure, which drives the annual storyline. Each of these adventure ties the miniature lines as well as other spinoff […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Five years after the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set launched the 5th edition of D&D, publisher Wizards or the Coast has released a new introductory boxed set, the Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit. Unlike the Starter Set—which was designed more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Acquisitions Incorporated When someone writes the history of tabletop gaming for the first decades of the 21st Century, 2019 will go down as an unusual year, being filled with D&D partnership products that tie-in to other media. There’s the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Ghosts of Saltmarsh The spring 2019 release for Dungeons & Dragons is a compilation of older adventures. Like 2017’s Tales From the Yawning Portal. Like that product, Ghosts of Saltmarsh is a “low energy update” of adventures from previous […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Dungeon of the Mad Mage Coming hot on the heels of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is the pseudo sequel Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage. This makes the book slightly curiously named, as it probably spends less time in Waterdeep […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: D&D Endless Quest Way back in 1979, the Choose Your Own adventure book series began, being published for almost twenty years. Just three years later, TSR launched their own modular path adventure book series, the Endless Quest books. There […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Waterdeep: Dragon Heist For the fall of 2018, Wizards of the Coast decided to release another two-part storyline adventure, and their first storyline adventure running from level 1 all the way to level 20. The first of these adventures […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron In a somewhat surprising move, Wizards of the Coast has released a 5th Edition update of the Eberron campaign world, written by the setting creator, Keith Baker. The Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron is a $20 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Until now, rules support for the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons has been limited to the small handful of classes in the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide and the races of Volo’s Guide to Monsters, with the majority of classes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Tomb of Annihilation The seventh large storyline adventure for the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons is the Tomb of Annihilation. Advertised as an reimagining of the “classic” deathtrap dungeon, the Tomb of Horrors, the adventure features the return […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
D&D Review: Tales From the Yawning Portal Wizards of the Coast has been keeping us fans on our toes with unexpected products that seldom fit into the comfortable expected boxes built by prior editions. Or, as their latest adventure module […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
